The Griz Pale Ale, with it's deep amber colour, is a bold and refreshing ale which blends the finest European malts and hops. Three hop additions lf Perle, Cascade, German Traditional and Styrian hops gives this ale a distinctive hop aroma and bitterness, classic to style. From mountain peaks, to river valleys, our Griz Pale Ale is perfect when venturing in the Great Outdoors.

The carbonation is on the soft side, the body medium-light in weight, a wee bit clammy, and adequately smooth. It finishes off-dry, the sweet, pastry-leaning malt still countered by a weirdly organic-seeming hoppiness.

Not bad, just kind of, well, middling. The hops, while present in numbers, don't exude the right kind of drying, bittering essence necessary in a pale ale, English or American - it matters not - for me to desire any sort of immediate reload. (1,023 characters)

A-Pale yellow color with a slight orange hue, good carbonation with a big creamy white head.

S- Very clean smell with a hint of fruit and bread but no hops or malt aromas stand out.

T- Very light citrus or orange hop tang with just a little hint of bitterness a very light malt finish that is pretty crisp.

M- This has a slippery watery mouthfeel with a light carbonation finish. No astringency or fizzyness.

D- This is a very light crisp beer that taste more like a light lager than a APA. It is missing a lot of the hop qualities I like to see in APAs and there is no malt backbone to support any hops. It is very light and refreshing but a letdown for the style. (719 characters)

Part of the BC Craft Beer Month mixed 12 pack. Nice to try this again as years ago I wrote one of the first reviews for this beer and it was horrible; amateur hour in a homebrew bottle. Now this has turned into a decent PA that shows enough hops to make it interesting and has a nice full mouthfeel. Better than GIs and OK Springs lightly hopped versions this shows a real growth for this brewery. (397 characters)

T - Taste is a little mild and almost reminiscent of honey. The lemon iced tea hops come through with the caramel malts lingering on the finish. Reminds me of Pike's Pale Ale offering.

M - Nice light offering with decent carbonation on the body which finishes smooth and only a touch dry.

D - This stuff is very tasty and easily sessionable. Mild hops are nicely balanced with sweet caramel malts. This is the perfect pale ale to ease someone into liking hops. Don't expect an overwhelming hop flavour, but this one is nicely balanced. (874 characters)

Boldly states The Griz Pale Ale on a red coloured can, looks like the new incarnation of what the brewery is producing from the old plastic homebrew bottles and the more recent 1L flip-tops.

Pours out a deep honey golden hue, it would make a wonderful looking lager, but is only average for a pale ale. The first thing that strikes me on the aroma is a bit of off-smelling adjunct, but perhaps this is a result of having sat in aluminum until I poured it into a glass. Faint grainy malt, and just as faint hops. The flavour once again is more akin to a fuller-bodied Euro lager than to a pale ale. Somewhat husky biscuity malt with a dash of light herbal hops, and I'm sad to say a bit of cooked veggie as well. The mouthfeel is mostly held aloft by the carbonation, and would be average for a macro lager, let alone a pale ale. Quite the conundrum with this ale, it suffers from a bit of multiple personality disorder, or at the very least is having a difficult time making up its mind what it wishes to be when it grows up. Still, while out in Fernie I'd grab a fresh one of these rather than a macro if the choice came down to that. (1,139 characters)

Visited Fernie, so got to try this one on draft.Golden orange color, thick and creamy white head that actually lasted longer than expected. Thin lacing left on my pint glass.Smells a bit floral and herbal, light sweet malt. Citrus hops in the smell and taste. The hops are not as powerful as many other pale ales, but still refreshing and enjoyable. Medium bodied with a light hop bitterness to finish. More of an introductory pale ale, not a lot of hoppy bite. I enjoy drinking local. (487 characters)

A - cloudy golden bronze, good creamy white head that retained very well, pretty good lacing up the glassS - herbal and lemon citrus hops, light sweet malt, and a little spicy chili hintT - a mix of herbal, citrus, and spicy hop flavours, a tangy citrus flavour fades to savoury bread, the hops are fairly light but still enjoyableM - medium bodied with a light spicy tingle, leaves a light hop bitterD - a nice offering with a mix of hop flavours that are generally light but enough to keep me interested, could be a good way to introduce the layman to hop flavour (569 characters)

Can poured into an English pub glass (and two more consumed straight from the source). A fairly light golden amber color with a solid amount of off-white head. Aroma is fronted by nondescript citrus rind, almost like grapefruit and lemons just beginning to go funky in the sun, grass clippings, slight culinary herb and a gentle toast backbone. Palate is nigh the same, this rather odd rancid citrus vibe, lemon-forward, along with grassy green old world hop flavors, a dash or three of peppercorn spice, tart apple skin, and rather toasted somewhat nutty malts. Reasonably chewy but the high degree of carbonation makes this translate as lighter on the palate than it probably is. I do enjoy the finish, tasting mostly the Cascade hops early on but getting the other European stuff late. Its kinda cool to see a Canadian craft brewer offer an English pale ale as a regular, and this one is quite well-executed. If I could tweak it, I'd accentuate the malts and perhaps dial down the green hop flavors. (1,002 characters)

Ineeb kept referring to this as "grits" -- a German-accented reading of the name "Griz" -- and hilariously appropriate.
It looked one shade darker than the same brewery's lager, but just as pristine and clear. Less aromatic than its cousin. Essentially this was a slightly more bitter, more metallic tasting version of the lager. None of the differences favored this beer. It was a chore to drink. Despite declaring that it was unpasteurized, it tasted very dead and blunt. I suspect some high-tech sterile filtering was done. Also, there is nothing remotely "Pale Ale"-like about this.

The GRIZ (Raar!) is a very light, anemic looking brew with a sweet-ish lemon bread aroma. There's no dominant hoppiness emerging in the nose. No head to speak of. Kind of bland looking...and smelling. It's flavors betray it as possibly something other than an ale -- a screwy lager of some sort, perhaps? Toss in a half ounce more hops into a huge batch of their lager, a drop or two of brown food coloring, and you more or less end up with the GRIZ. Mmm. (492 characters)

Drinkability is alright, but it's more like a jazzed up macro lager or a mass produced macro red ale, that's copper instead of red. Not bad, but not great either. Worth a try but don't go out of your way for it. (695 characters)

This is another of FBC's longest-running brews. I've enjoyed the Griz on the river, around the campfire, slopeside(apres and during ski), on Fernie pub crawls, and now in the comfort of my own kitchen. It is surprisingly light in colour, with a bit of head that leaves several rings of lacing. There is a biscuity caramel profile, along with a very mild Cascade hop that combine for a very pleasant beer. This is a versatile Ale, well suited for a wide variety of foods and settings. (483 characters)

Can pulled from a "Hop Trick Mixer Sixer" from Fernie Brewing. Pours into my glass a gold colour with amber hints, faintly hazy, topped by a few fingers of foam that recede gradually to a few millimetres but maintain there, offering a solid amount of lacing on the glass.

Smell is a bit of doughy yeast, some bready malt, slight cracker, grassy. Slightly citrusy as well (faint grapefruit?). Nicely balanced, accessible. Taste is much the same: slightly bready, crackery, with just a hint of grassy and citrusy hops, and maybe a touch of cat pee (Fernie Brewing seems to embrace the cat pee in its hopped beers). Slight bitterness, slightly resinous, but again very good balance. Carbonation is a touch high, but the body is good.

This hits the American Pale Ale style quite well--balanced, crisp, clean, quite drinkable while still offering a bit from both the hop and malt flavour segments, and enough variety from the average APA to be a bit more interesting. It's not setting the world on fire and it's not, like, transcendent, but an American Pale Ale that strives for transcendence is maybe missing the point of the style. This is a classic lawnmower beer through and through, begging to be consumed ice cold straight from the can. (1,242 characters)

I love these 1L flip-tops that Wild Rose and Fernie Brewing use, and I was glad to come across some of Fernie's beers in these bottles in Invermere, BC. Known as "Griz" by the front label; not sure if this is a reference to grizzly bears or what, and the website does not say. Griz Pale Ale looks good in the glass, being a super-clear light golden honey colour topped by a bright white head. The head churned quickly, but is quite creamy and left adequate lacing. From the aroma I get light malt and hops and caramel popcorn. Some vanilla and grass, and even though I am drinking this fairly cold, I do not think it being warmer would render any more complexity. Besides the lightest of malt and slight herbal hoppiness, it is fairly difficult to coax any other aroma out. Perhaps there is some maple syrup notes, along with waffles. In the taste I get more popcorn, some watery malt, and conservative hopping, adding a decent but underdeveloped dryness. There is a pasta taste as well, along with some buttery vanilla, a little malty breadiness, and some grassy biterness. Complex, this is not. It IS energising, and quaffing this after boarding or skiing on a hot day in Fernie would make it more acceptable. The mouthfeel at least lets a drinker know this is an ale, because the body is stronger than a lot of pale lagers, and the carbonation of Griz is softer and less fizzy on the tongue. This is like BC's version of Alexander Keiths, but with a little more flavour. This is drinkable, and as I say this would go down after a day on the slopes quite happily. As for complexity or novelty, look elsewhere. (1,611 characters)

Pours a murky yellow with a 2 finger off white pillowy head and nice sticky lacing.Nose is very faint herbal scent,hint of pine and maybe some caramel in there.Taste is somewhat sweet with the caramel litely coming through,very lite malts,kinda watery thin going down with a little dry on the finish and mild bitterness,overall not really much there,but very easily consumable. (377 characters)